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•CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK invitation. This is not a public meeting, but, always want to have the Council join if you are available. We have our all-staff meeting. We do this once a year where we bring one hundred and fifty(150)or so people together in one(1)room to see what's going on. If we have a minute at the end, I will show you a graphic of where this came from. If I may, I will just use your agenda for the guide of the day. Corey is not here yet, but I do expect him to be, so we will come back to the youth mowing and will bring up John Martinez to hit on a couple of the initial projects. John Martinez, Director of Facilities and Grounds for Venues, Parks & Arts with offices located at 1020 High Street, stated, Going through the few items on the agenda, one (1) is an update on Randolph Park. It is on the south east side of South Bend. It is a small park and what we consider a pocket park. Currently the park is bisected by Sampson Street (referencing a slide in a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office). We recently went through the Board of Public Works process and with Engineering's assistance to vacate that street to join the two (2) halves of the parks together. Currently, we are showing upgrades. We are going to remove all of the outdated equipment that is either due to the life expectancy of the equipment or safety concerns. The street is still present now. Some of the things we would like to do is look at potentially adding a pavilion. Across the street is a retention pond. We are looking at putting something like a soccer goal there. We're looking at adding a basketball court, as well. Originally, we proposed putting a pavilion down the center with an adjoining sidewalk once the street is removed, but currently we are working with Engineering to make sure the drainage of the site allows for that. He continued, For the new playground going in this year, which would be completed by July 1st, we've added spinning elements to it, three hundred and sixty (360) play, a climbing rock wall, some net climbers, a slide structure with actual physical amenities to it, as well as a few different swings. The equipment is all centrally located. The swings will have child swings, normal swings and then expression swings. Those allow the user to sit with a smaller child at the same time and swing together. The equipment will be accompanied with grills, a picnic pad, tables and will have better lines of sight for users. Now, one (1)parent or guardian with multiple kids can now,instead of watching kids on two (2) different sides of the park, watch them on one (1). So, currently, as I mentioned, the street has been vacated and we are working with Engineering to work on the drainage.We met with Streets and Sewers to talk about how this affects plow routes and we expect to proceed with this between this fall and next spring. A playground will go in by July 1st He went on, Moving on, another item was an update on Ravina Park. This was a Board of Public Works project in conjunction with VPA. There were erosion improvements done on the actual bank.The river,due to the hydrology of the creek,has started eating away at the bank.This project stabilizes it.There was a bridge that went across the park that had been destroyed years ago,before I can even remember. As part of the project, sidewalks now accompany all sides of the park. That sidewalk is an ADA accessible ramp which comes down the middle of the park into a small overlook that will be featured with benches and other amenities for people to sit and enjoy the creek. Going back, I just want to speak a little bit to the projects overall. These projects are funded out of the new bond series that we recently had the fortune of finding. It touches nine(9) different playgrounds throughout the City of South Bend getting ADA accessible equipment. We are designing ADA accessible sidewalks at many of these. We will not be able to implement them all simultaneously, but the plan is by 2020 to have sidewalks joining everywhere, geographically, where we are able to. We are going to touch twenty-four (24) restrooms, men and women. I'm embarrassed to say,but some don't even have doors or proper stalls at the moment. These will all be ADA accessible. Some proponents include sidewalk components and adjacent concrete in order EXCELLENCE j ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 i f 574.235.9173 I I L)574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 2